For centuries, farmers used almanacs to try to understand and predict weather patterns.Now, a new crop of Latin American startups is helping do that with artificial intelligence, promising a farming revolution in agricultural giants like Brazil, the world's biggest exporter of soybeans, corn and beef.Aline Oliveira Pezente, a 39-year-old entrepreneur from the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, was working at agriculture company Louis Dreyfus Commodities when she noticed a problem in how the...
CLARKSON’S Farm fans are over the moon after Amazon announced it will begin stocking its products. Diddly Squat Farm shop items are now available to buy through the online site and at some Am
Ann Bailey shares about some of the winged and four-legged creatures that are permanent and seasonal residents of her farmstead.
Silent. Rigid. Clumsy. Henry and Jane Evans are used to awkward houseguests. For more than a decade, the couple, who live in Los Altos Hills, California, have hosted a slew of robots in their home. In 2002, at age 40, Henry had a massive stroke, which left him with quadriplegia and an inability to speak.…
At Ocado's newest warehouse robotic arms are helping to pack customer orders.
Using AI-based object localization and 3D image processing, Dino Robotics has developed software that allows robots to understand their cooking environment.
Jenny Schlecht has embarked on training for a race and has discovered a number of challenges to training on the farm, including limited places to run and bothersome creepy-crawly creatures.
I began to notice Animal Farm references proliferating in Zimbabwe in 2008. That was the year hyperinflation nosedived the economy, and long-time leader Robert Mugabe felt threatened enough by a newly formed opposition party that he silenced its supporters. In the years since, writers and independent media have repeatedly turned to Animal Farm as a way to illuminate our political reality—even after Mugabe’s 2017 ousting. Last year, a group of Zimbabwean writers published the first-ever Shona...
Smart Makuyana braves the hot summer temperatures as he wobbles along the 3-kilometer distance (a little under 2 miles) toward the house
It’s tough out there — and yet, doing my semi-regular jobs post always gives me hope. Seems every time I post one of these, the number increases. At 74 companies, this is undoubtedly the largest list we’ve made, by a wide margin. That means more work for me in putting this post together, but if […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
For The Madera TribuneThe MadTown Robotics team holds the Industrial Award for demonstrating industrial design principles and striking a balance between form, function, and aesthetics at the International FIRST Championships this weekend in Houston Texas. MadTown advanced to the championship match, but lost in two games.Madera Unified School District’s MadTown Robotics — FRC Team 1323 has once again proven its excellence in the world of robotics by making the finals of the International FIRST...
Project Farm heads into the kitchen for a snack: a toaster roundup covering everything from a $20 Amazon Basics model to a $220 Smeg and a $330 touchscreen thing. It's interesting to see so many quantitive tests—electrical draw, bread weight loss percentages, toastage speed—applied to such a mundane appliance. — Read the rest